And then she stuck another frowny in my column, ratcheting my feelings of being hard-done-to up to the level of the Manchester United midfield when a referee has the audacity to award a free kick against them.

The frowny has been also implemented by Carpenter, Daniere, and Takahashi (2004a, 2004b) in a setting where frownies cannot be targeted at a particular individual, but only sent (at a small cost and anonymously) to the whole group to express dissatisfaction with the group contribution.

We find the probabilities to differ significantly across the two matching procedures (for both smiley and frowny treatments) only if a subject's contribution deviates from the group average by at most 5 ECU.

They hacked together this really rudimentary framework that registered keystrokes, so that anytime I made like a smiley face or a frowny face at the end of a sentence, it would plot the emotions out on a graph.

The use of simple pictures and drawings of nerves and synapses, coupled with emoticons (smiley faces, frowny faces, angry faces, etc.

It has happy chemicals to give you happy feelings [picture of a neuronal synapse with a happy face emoticon], sad chemicals to make you feel sad [picture of a neuronal synapse with a frowny face emoticon] .

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